Susan Sontag
(essayist)
T. Craig Weaver
Realtor, Broker-in-Charge
Beth Weaver
Broker
828-963-2088
866-963-2088 (toll free)
ecolands@skybest.com
Ecological Consciousness
Ecology is the study of the interrelationships between and among all living beings and their environment. Ecological consciousness means choosing to consider the ecological consequences of human impact, with the intention of living and working in harmony with the natural world. Your awareness of the environment and concern for a healthy ecology puts a whole new light on ordinary real estate values. Aesthetic, ecological and spiritual values can be harmoniously integrated with traditional values of utility, convenience, safety, location and economic soundness. Economics and ecology can easily work together.
By adopting this point of view, you will make a positive difference for the near and long-term future as you make choices about real estate.
To read about examples illustrating this new perspective.
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We at Sundance Mountain Lands can help you address ecological factors related to land use in the buying, selling or holding of real property. Yes, we do the ordinary business of helping you buy or sell land, residential, farming or commercial property, but as we do so, we hold this new perspective. Perhaps you will also.
We encourage you to make it your business to preserve and further the beauty and environmental vitality that draws you to these mountains in the first place. Do this for yourself, for your human neighbors and for your plant, animal, stream and mountain neighbors. Do it for your children and grandchildren. Do it in respect for the Indigenous Peoples and other Appalachian families who have been here for generations. Honor the Earth and all her inhabitants. Live harmoniously with them.
Invest in land or other real property for stewardship values as well as for financial and/or other personal reasons. To own property then takes on a connotation of caring for a gift entrusted to you by the Creator. This suggests a business ethic that sees more than a narrowly-defined self interest. This ethic sees property ownership as an opportunity that, if handled respectfully and wisely, will further not only the best interest of the owner but also that of the broader community and of the natural world. This view redefines "highest and best use" to mean what is the more ecologically-sound, environmentally-friendly, aesthetically-pleasing, and therefore, financially best use of a particular property. In some cases, undeveloped land has the greatest economic value, as well as intrinsic aesthetic value.
On the practical level, this means that certain land is best not developed at all. Other land may be developed lightly and with low impact, if density is kept low and environmentally-friendly placement and construction techniques and materials are used. Still other property may be best used for more intense, dense development, if effort is made to impact the land's ecological health as little as possible and to preserve the natural beauty as much as possible.
In each of these cases, a property's value over the long haul may well be greater than that of a property developed with little or no concern for ecology or natural beauty, other than in meeting the minimum environmental standards required by law.
We would like to raise your consciousness that any and all kinds of real property and the transactions involving them can be seen from this new perspective.
A major goal at Sundance Mountain Lands is to identify people who can see that any person or group of persons can use their financial resources to protect and preserve land along the way to meeting human needs. The land trusts and conservancies and other environmental groups need our strong support, but we can also be a direct part of preserving the natural beauty and health of these mountains by how we deal with our own property, investments and resources.
So, in addition to our regular brokerage services, we want to form a pool of investors who would be available to step in and buy choice land to preserve it. We must act expeditiously and decisively in the next five years, if we are to make an appreciable difference. Are you interested in being on our list? Do you know others who might be interested? Go to our Contact Us page.
What are your values as you seek to buy or
sell real property?
Do you want to make a difference?
How can we help your wants or dreams become a reality?
Would you be interested in private land preservation?
Ecological Consciousness
Ecology is the study of the interrelationships between and among all living beings and their environment. Ecological consciousness means choosing to consider the ecological consequences of human impact, with the intention of living and working in harmony with the natural world. Your awareness of the environment and concern for a healthy ecology puts a whole new light on ordinary real estate values. Aesthetic, ecological and spiritual values can be harmoniously integrated with traditional values of utility, convenience, safety, location and economic soundness. Economics and ecology can easily work together.
By adopting this point of view, you will make a positive difference for the near and long-term future as you make choices about real estate.
To read about examples illustrating this new perspective.
{ Click here }
We at Sundance Mountain Lands can help you address ecological factors related to land use in the buying, selling or holding of real property. Yes, we do the ordinary business of helping you buy or sell land, residential, farming or commercial property, but as we do so, we hold this new perspective. Perhaps you will also.
We encourage you to make it your business to preserve and further the beauty and environmental vitality that draws you to these mountains in the first place. Do this for yourself, for your human neighbors and for your plant, animal, stream and mountain neighbors. Do it for your children and grandchildren. Do it in respect for the Indigenous Peoples and other Appalachian families who have been here for generations. Honor the Earth and all her inhabitants. Live harmoniously with them.
Invest in land or other real property for stewardship values as well as for financial and/or other personal reasons. To own property then takes on a connotation of caring for a gift entrusted to you by the Creator. This suggests a business ethic that sees more than a narrowly-defined self interest. This ethic sees property ownership as an opportunity that, if handled respectfully and wisely, will further not only the best interest of the owner but also that of the broader community and of the natural world. This view redefines "highest and best use" to mean what is the more ecologically-sound, environmentally-friendly, aesthetically-pleasing, and therefore, financially best use of a particular property. In some cases, undeveloped land has the greatest economic value, as well as intrinsic aesthetic value.
On the practical level, this means that certain land is best not developed at all. Other land may be developed lightly and with low impact, if density is kept low and environmentally-friendly placement and construction techniques and materials are used. Still other property may be best used for more intense, dense development, if effort is made to impact the land's ecological health as little as possible and to preserve the natural beauty as much as possible.
In each of these cases, a property's value over the long haul may well be greater than that of a property developed with little or no concern for ecology or natural beauty, other than in meeting the minimum environmental standards required by law.
We would like to raise your consciousness that any and all kinds of real property and the transactions involving them can be seen from this new perspective.
A major goal at Sundance Mountain Lands is to identify people who can see that any person or group of persons can use their financial resources to protect and preserve land along the way to meeting human needs. The land trusts and conservancies and other environmental groups need our strong support, but we can also be a direct part of preserving the natural beauty and health of these mountains by how we deal with our own property, investments and resources.
So, in addition to our regular brokerage services, we want to form a pool of investors who would be available to step in and buy choice land to preserve it. We must act expeditiously and decisively in the next five years, if we are to make an appreciable difference. Are you interested in being on our list? Do you know others who might be interested? Go to our Contact Us page.
What are your values as you seek to buy or
sell real property?
Do you want to make a difference?
How can we help your wants or dreams become a reality?
Would you be interested in private land preservation?